Hey Kids,
Today’s Mwod is all about your high groin/hamstring insertion areas. These tender bits are hard to hit and don’t feel good. At all. Because we try to load our hip extensors first in movement, these areas tend to get glued down. To add to this, the fact is that we basically make our posterior chain musculature into a big “ass laminate” everyday during seated positions. So, it’s time to skin that pony.
The first groin blaster is not for everyone and should be attempted only with another back up groin locked and loaded. Seriously. We’ve covered the wall groin stretch. Try that if you are afraid. Don’t tweak your back, kay?
But do cultivate 5 min of messing around on each leg. Try to squat and deadlift before and after. Noticing anything?
Yeah. Thought so.
K-sweat’n-parasympathically-star
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My scrotch is tight bro!
Anyone here have any experience with Osteitis Pubis? It is an awful scrotchal condition I am dealing with.
Diagnosed with Osteitis Pubis a year ago – sneezing was pretty bad, sprinting out of the question.
Unfortunately I don't have any magic tricks – stopped running and squatting for a while, did elliptical and cycling to keep moving. Lots of different adductor stretches, self-massage of adductors, and eccentric-only adductor strengthening, various planks and easy rotational work. When it didn't hurt to sneeze, I worked back sprinting and cutting.
I tried not to rely too much on ibuprofen. Plenty of fish-oil, and I did seem to get better a week after I started taking sea mussel extract – but I was doing so much it's hard to say if that really helped or is just hocus-pocus.
All said I was hurting well over 6 months, but actual recovery time once I cut out everything aggravating it was just under half that.
Just wondering what other type of ball i could use if i dont have a Lacrosse ball. Will a Tennis ball do the same thing?? I have a yoga roller which i use and is very very helpfully.
hope someone can advice,
Cheers
BFG: Are you fully recovered now? Can you sprint pain free? I'm currently doing the Chrio route with ART massages thrown in, along with ceasing activity and rugby.
Does anyone know if super tight scrotchal bits can cause interior and patella knee pain?
Ass-laminate! Ha ha! I love this blog. Keep up the good work dude – this is great stuff!
Just a warning… for those not quite as flexible as Kelly, you may find the two 45lb bars have a tendency to roll down the thighs and scrunch the scrotchal bits – making the sweats the least of your worries.
If you don't have a lacrosse ball you should get one. They are $1.99 or less at most sport stores and they work the best.
You could use a tennis ball, baseball, or softball, but they are not as dense as a lacrosse ball so they don't have the same effect as using a lacrosse ball.
Kelly,
Thank you for everything that you are doing, it's all making a huge difference to my performance.
Please could I request that you share your thoughts on olympic weightlifting shoes and lifting belts?
The reason I ask is that I have limited heel cord flexibility (it is improving) and I know that the elevated heel on lifting shoes would improve my lifts. However, I also know that this is only masking the problem and not solving it. Fix first and then introduce shoes? Also, when/if to introduce the appropriate (max effort) use of belts?
Thank you in advance and keep up the great work.
Sam – I haven't had any pain in my abdominal wall since last March-ish. I was doing sprint workouts and playing all summer with no pain. However, if I'm not careful to stretch them before I do something, my adductors will definitely still let me know.
@Anomymous,
Not sure where you are, you may be in a country where lacrosse balls aren't easily available.
If so, the odds are that they play cricket and/or field hockey where you are. The ball from either of those is about teh same size as a lacrosse ball and at least as hard, or in the case of a pracsrise field hockey ball, mauch harder.
Lacrosse balls are much harder than tennis balls, a lacrosse ball is a solid chunk of rubber.
I purchased what were supposed to be lacrosse balls and what I got were hollow and had a hole in them which allowed air to escape. They may have been practise or junior balls of some sort.
The real deal is not as hard as a field hockey or cricket ball, but is much more solid than a tennis ball.
Any solid ball of about that size will work. Cricket, hockey, baseballs will all do the job.
Ben–
A few of Kelly's thoughts on using weight belts http://tinyurl.com/37ed6bn
Kaitlin,
Thank you, I hadn't seen that before, very informative.
Hello i’m molamin from west africa,the gambia.i’ve happen to sat on my balls over 3months ago and i went to the hospitle the docter use some sort of scannin device around my stomach i heard they said everything is okay but one of my balls is bigger than the other since after the incident one of the docters there told me that i should be wearing tight bexers i did all that but my problem now is that am experiencing sevire pain on my scrotches i really need help as you can see am from a country thats not that advance..mail me on sainegi2009@yahoo.com